alt Hacker NewsWeaver never 'tried' to be an arms dealer. The ATF approached him and asked him to do it. The ATF was the only 'white supremacist' that we even suspect Weaver might have discussed gunsmithing with. And as far as I know, he's never even been convicted of doing so. The only thing Weaver was convicted of AFAIK is not showing up for court, for something he is still presumed innocent of (edit: actually, fully acquitted of).
It's quite possible he didn't even cut the shotgun too short. The barrel of the gun is supposedly in ATF archives somewhere, but no one seems to know where it is. Very convenient.
> The ATF approached him and asked him to do it.
And that’s shitty and entrapment. Which is why the charges were dismissed.
I wonder how you see the government do something bad and think a dictatorship is the solution.
> The ATF was the only 'white supremacist' that we even suspect Weaver might have discussed gunsmithing with.
Is there something backing this claim? Like, was there testimony somewhere from the rest of the Aryan Nations group that he never discussed this with anyone else?
You’re also putting “white supremacist” in quotes like that’s questionable. Maybe the ATF agent was not a white supremacist but this was at an Aryan Nations meeting and Weaver was a self described white separatist.